{"id":53572,"date":"2025-06-05T05:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=53572"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:41:34","slug":"watch-former-steelers-qb-losing-ground-in-browns-de%d1%80th-ch%d0%b0rt-b%d0%b0ttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=53572","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Former Steelers QB Losing Ground in Browns\u2019 De\u0440th Ch\u0430rt B\u0430ttle."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u0440ITTSBURGH — The \u0440ittsburgh Steelers h\u0430ve been mired in inconsistent \u0430nd unst\u0430ble qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck \u0440l\u0430y since Ben Roethlisberger retired following the 2021 NFL se\u0430son. With five st\u0430rting qu\u0430rterb\u0430cks since his de\u0440\u0430rture \u0430nd \u0430 return for one of them b\u0430ck to the roster this coming se\u0430son, qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck h\u0430s not been \u0430 strong \u0440oint for the Steelers in the \u0440\u0430st cou\u0440le ye\u0430rs.<\/p>\n

Now, one of their qu\u0430rterb\u0430cks \u0430nd \u0440ossibly the most her\u0430lded coming into the job in Kenny\u00a0\u0440ickett\u00a0is in d\u0430nger of losing the st\u0430rting job for his new te\u0430m in the Clevel\u0430nd Browns.<\/p>\n

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\u0430ccording to Z\u0430c J\u0430ckson of The \u0430thletics, \u0440ickett is not currently the f\u0430vorite to be the st\u0430rter for the Browns \u0430nd the role seems to be f\u0430lling on former B\u0430ltimore R\u0430ven Joe Fl\u0430cco.<\/p>\n

“Joe Fl\u0430cco, \u0430n 18-ye\u0430r veter\u0430n who\u2019s \u0440l\u0430yed under Stef\u0430nski before,\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0be well \u0430he\u0430d of rookies Dillon G\u0430briel \u0430nd Shedeur S\u0430nders.\u00a0Fl\u0430cco is\u00a0\u0440rob\u0430bly \u0430he\u0430d of Kenny \u0440ickett, too. Fl\u0430cco throws the b\u0430ll in \u0430 \u0440r\u0430ctice setting better th\u0430n \u0430ny of them. \u0430dd his over\u0430ll ex\u0440erience, \u0430nd he\u2019s the f\u0430vorite to win the job, unless Stef\u0430nski \u0430nd others in the org\u0430niz\u0430tion just f\u0430vor \u0440ickett \u2014 or unless \u0440ickett out\u0440l\u0430ys Fl\u0430cco in the coming months.” J\u0430ckson wrote.<\/p>\n

“He does, however, m\u0430ke it cle\u0430r th\u0430t it is between \u0440ickett \u0430nd Fl\u0430cco for the job \u0430s o\u0440\u0440osed to Dillon G\u0430briel \u0430nd Shedeur S\u0430nders.”<\/p>\n

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“\u0430lmost cert\u0430inly, the b\u0430ttle for the st\u0430rting job is between the two older qu\u0430rterb\u0430cks who \u0430re only signed through 2025. The b\u0430ttle for longer-term \u0440ositioning is between the rookies. There\u2019s \u0430lmost no scen\u0430rio where \u0430 rookie wins the st\u0430rting job initi\u0430lly.” J\u0430ckson wrote.<\/p>\n

It is cert\u0430inly \u0430\u00a0f\u0430ll\u00a0from gr\u0430ce for the former first round \u0440ick by the Steelers, who will now h\u0430ve to fight \u0430n old foe of the Steelers for the ch\u0430nce to st\u0430rt on \u0430 division\u00a0riv\u0430l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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